
Dong Jinsong
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Biography
The Wild Goose Lake (2019) is Dong Jinsong’s fourth collaboration with director/writer Diao Yinan. In 2003 he shot Diao’s directorial debut Uniform, in 2007, he shot Night Train which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes that year and Black Coal, Thin Ice which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014. In 2011 Dong was Director of Photography on Xiaoshuai Wang’s 11 Flowers, which was nominated for Best Children’s Feature Film in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also for Cai Shangjun’s People Mountain People Sea which premiered In Competition at the 68th Venice Festival.
Known For

In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making.
Resurrection

During the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, orphan Lu Feng returns to Shanghai as a Communist undercover agent, tasked with infiltrating No. 76 Headquarters. There, he crosses paths with the mysterious Hua Xiang Yu and his childhood friend Huo Fei, both hiding secrets of their own. As they circle each other in a dangerous game of loyalty and deception, these hidden agents must decide what they truly stand for, risking everything to fight for a better future.
Infernal Affairs

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.
Long Day's Journey Into Night

A gangster ends up making a mistake that causes every gun on both sides of the law to point at him. While on the run, he comes across a mysterious woman who might get him out of trouble or make things worse.
The Wild Goose Lake

An accidental death of the suspect leads to the entire team of the Third Division being imprisoned. Six years later, team leader Cheng Bing is released but remains consumed by the case. Over the next eleven years, he lives a normal life while secretly tracking down the killer, determined to see justice served.
Endless Journey

Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Black Coal, Thin Ice

An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
The Lady in the Portrait

Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, until she meets the husband of one of her prisoners.
Night Train

A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand the adult world.
11 Flowers
Follows a mother who has spent most of her life in Dunhuang, a historic city in western China. With the help of artificial intelligence, she embarks on a journey that takes her from western to eastern China.
Mamma Dunhuang

A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.
People Mountain People Sea

A struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker returns to his family's laundrette, where he 'borrows' a police officer's shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.
Uniform

Feature length making-of documentary of The Wild Goose Lake.
Night Light: Making of The Wild Goose Lake

On his moped, Yang Ba travels every day from the grubby apartment he shares with his wife and son to the ramshackle tyre workshop where he tries to earn a living for his family. But having a child of student age is expensive and Yang’s finances are put under even more pressure when the municipality plans to demolish his neighbourhood. His distress puts him in touch with Li Daguo, who is looking for a kidney for his desperately ill sister.
The Donor
Diao Yi'nan's latest neo-noir starring Jackson Yee. A surprising thriller set against the snow-covered landscapes of industrial China.